[Introduced January 8, 2014; referred to the Committee on Banking
and Insurance; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact article 7, chapter 64 of the Code of
West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the
Insurance Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule
relating to a health plan insurer internal grievance
procedure.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article 7, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931,
as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 26,
2013, authorized under the authority of section four, article
sixteen-h, chapter thirty-three of this code, modified by the
Insurance Commissioner to meet the objections of the Legislative
Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on
November 1, 2013, relating to the Insurance Commissioner (health
plan insurer internal grievance procedure, 114 CSR 96), is
authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Insurance
Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule relating to a health
plan insurer internal grievance procedure.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.